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Initially, the bank had zeroed in on the records of a black boxing promoter named Harold Smith, 37, chairman of an organization called Muhammad Ali Professional Sports, or MAPS, which seemed to be at the center of the scam. But as the investigation went on it became clear that the real mastermind was Lewis, a black who, like Smith, was a board member of MAPS. When told during a Jan. 23 interrogation that auditors from the head office in San Francisco would see him after lunch, Lewis walked out and never returned...
...central figure in the affair is Harold Smith, 37, who has already been dubbed "the black Jesse James" by Don King, a rival boxing impresario. Virtually unknown two years ago, Smith suddenly burst onto the boxing scene in 1979 flashing mysteriously huge sums of cash. As chairman of Muhammad Ali Professional Sports (MAPS), he became almost overnight the leading big-time fight promoter. One of the members of the MAPS board of directors is Benjamin Lewis, 47, who until three weeks ago was an operations officer at a Beverly Hills branch of Wells Fargo and had authority...
Despite his name on the firm's front door, Muhammad Ali is not involved in the scam. But he admits that he received at least $10,000 for the use of his name for each fight. Said Ali last week: "If you're looking for something dirty or crooked, you're looking in the wrong place. Me a bank robber? Are you kidding...
...usually complemented by a cowboy hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses. His past is something of a mystery. During the 1960s, he worked in the civil rights movement with Stokely Carmichael. In 1976 he turned up in Los Angeles promoting concerts with stars like Shirley Bassey. His business association with Muhammad Ali began a year later, when Smith sponsored some amateur track meets...
...perched on the ninth-floor ledge of a Los Angeles building was not preparing to float like a butterfly. Police, a clergyman and a psychologist tried for two hours to talk him out of jumping, but to no avail. In short, this looked like a job for Muhammad Ali. At least that is what one of Ali's p.r. men thought when he happened on the scene. Moments after being summoned, the former heavyweight champ arrived in his personal emergency vehicle-a two-tone brown Rolls-Royce-lights flashing. He ascended to a window near the desperate 21-year...